Workout Manual Alternating days of capoeira, tangolates (pilates with tango music), and soccer.

Recent Indulgence At an asado, aka Argentinean barbecue: a cheese table with olives, bread, and wine, followed by roasted vegetables, sausage sandwiches, salad, and a very thick steak. For dessert? A vigilante — cheese topped with sweet-potato jam.

Workout Manual Kundalini yoga before breakfast and before bed; afternoon hatha at Yoga Yard, a 30-minute walk from home. "Studios are popping up, but most people who work out in China are still of the older generation."

Recent Indulgence At a dinner in Shanghai: tofu-skin soup, fried rice, broccoli with shrimp, black fungus mushroom with wasabi sauce, steamed fish, and meat dishes (for her friends). Plus, watermelon, grapes, and chocolate. "It's customary to order a variety and more than you can eat."

Health Mantra "Buying organic is expensive, and eating vegetarian is tough in China [even most vegetable dishes are cooked with meat], but it's worth it."

Workout Manual Alternating days of capoeira, tangolates (pilates with tango music), and soccer.

Recent Indulgence At an asado, aka Argentinean barbecue: a cheese table with olives, bread, and wine, followed by roasted vegetables, sausage sandwiches, salad, and a very thick steak. For dessert? A vigilante — cheese topped with sweet-potato jam.

Workout Manual Kundalini yoga before breakfast and before bed; afternoon hatha at Yoga Yard, a 30-minute walk from home. "Studios are popping up, but most people who work out in China are still of the older generation."

Recent Indulgence At a dinner in Shanghai: tofu-skin soup, fried rice, broccoli with shrimp, black fungus mushroom with wasabi sauce, steamed fish, and meat dishes (for her friends). Plus, watermelon, grapes, and chocolate. "It's customary to order a variety and more than you can eat."

Health Mantra "Buying organic is expensive, and eating vegetarian is tough in China [even most vegetable dishes are cooked with meat], but it's worth it."

Lili Xu

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Global Fitness: Germany

PHOEBE ENGEL, 34

Product brand manager in Munich

Breakfast: Brezel (baked pretzel) with butter.

Lunch: Vegetables with mozzarella and balsamic vinegar ("sometimes with tuna").

Dinner: Grilled chicken with vegetables.

Snack: One or two small chocolate-chunk cookies.

Workout Manual Alternating days of jogging, cycling, and swimming. Plus, golf in summer ("this requires lots of walking, but I don't mind; some courses outside Munich have views of the Alps") and skiing in winter.

Recent Indulgence Room

service the night before a flight: cheeseburger and fries. "I love fries! At least I had a salad with goat cheese as a starter."

Health Mantra When you go to a traditional Bavarian restaurant, by all means, indulge: rouladen (slices of beef wrapped around fillings like bacon and onions) with lots of sauce, schnitzel, sausages, potatoes, schweinebraten with dumplings, baked duck . . . "I don't visit such a restaurant to eat salad! But I also don't go more than once every couple of weeks."

Workout Manual Alternating days of Spinning and water boxing. "Twice a week is customary in Italy, but I try to work out almost every day."

Recent Indulgence In a restaurant on the shore of Sardinia: octopus salad, fregola (pasta made with semolina flour) with seafood and tomato sauce on a bed of pane carasau (flatbread), two glasses of wine, three fresh figs, and a handful of cherries.

Health Mantra Quality food in moderate quantities — especially when it comes to pasta. ("I eat about half of what is customary in Italy [4.4 ounces].")